Hello and good morning from Hakuba, and as expected it is raining this morning.

Temperatures are too high for snow, around 8 degrees mid morning, and not that cold even up top as well... though hopefully tonight it will get colder and there'll be some snow up there.

Expect sun tomorrow with temperatures not quite as mild as today. After tonight next snowfall seems to be forecast for around Monday.

As things stand there's not much snow on the upper slopes of the resort areas, so the wait continues and will most likely will be continuing next week.

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Here are the planned season opening dates for the ski and snowboard resorts in the Hakuba region. There are all subject to change depending on what happens weather-wise:

Hakuba Happo-one: as soon as there is enough snowHakuba 47: as soon as there is enough snowHakuba Goryu: as soon as there is enough snowTsugaike Kogen: as soon as there is enough snowHakuba Cortina: from 10th DecemberHakuba Iwatake Snow Field: from 16th DecemberHakuba Norikura Onsen: from mid DecemberHakuba Sanosaka: from mid December